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Lessons from The Ryder Cup

4th October 2012

Watching the Ryder Cup over the weekend really brought home to me once again the power of the mind, and what it can do to you both positively and negatively. Depending on each player’s frame of mind, it had a major impact on how they approached each shot. Some of the easiest shots became almost impossible, whilst some impossible ones became easy. As always those who really believed they could do it, did, and those who started doubting themselves started miss-hitting shots.

You could tell by their body language who was confident, and who was not, and of course what they believed would be the outcome of their shot, their individual match, and ultimately the entire team result was exactly what happened. What was also incredibly noticeable was how the players started to affect the crowd and vice versa. As the doubts started to creep in, and the very real possibility that Europe could actually win, the crowd started to get nervous, feeding off the players uncertainty, and in return sapping the confidence of the players.

If you take this sort of scenario to a business, yet again you can find similarities. If the business owner starts to lose confidence in the business, or their ability to make the right decisions, the team starts to expect things to go wrong. And of course they do. The sales team no longer believe they can get new business, and naturally enough their prospects don’t feel the assurance that they are buying the right thing, and go elsewhere.

Times are without doubt still very difficult, but you have to keep on believing that you can keep ahead of the game, and not succumb to the feeling that everything is working against you. If you start to think that “bad luck” is following you, it will. So keep being positive and you will bring your own good luck. If you believe you can, you can.


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